Automatic Identification of Vehicle Plate Number using Raspberry Pi

Abstract

Vehicle’s plate number is a unique identity by which individual vehicle can be identified. Vehicle plate recognition system helps to capture a vehicle plate number, extract the numbers on the plate and check the details of the car owner. As the number of car owners in a country increases, identifying and charging unlawful vehicles on the road has been a tedious work for law enforcement agents. In this paper, we present an automatic vehicle plate recognition system using Raspberry pi. A Camera was incorporated to help in capturing the plate number images and it is interfaced to a Raspberry pi processor for authentication. Using the Open Computer Vision (Open CV) and Optical Character Recognition (OCR), the system can extract numbers from the captured plate image and completely automate the license plate recognition. The experimental results from several testing in different locations and conditions show that the system performed better than most of the baseline studies considered.